An acoustic-only multivariable diagnostic model for Parkinson's disease using bowel sound acoustic signatures
Sicheng Chen, Man Zhang, Surui Fang, Qi Yang, Chuyi Chen, Zhixuan Lei, Yuxia Zhu, Fen Deng, Lijuan Mo, Xi Liu, Changhong Tan, Lifen Chen · 2026
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Description
Sicheng Chen and co-authors build a sound based test for Parkinson disease in a 2026 study. Finding the disease early is hard, since clear early signs are lacking. Gut problems often appear early, yet no simple gut marker exists. The team recorded bowel sounds, the gurgles made by the moving gut, from patients and healthy peers.
Patients showed broken, low energy bowel sound patterns next to controls. A model built only on sound features sorted patients from controls with fair accuracy. A fuller model that added blood markers did better than sound alone. In early stage patients, the sound model kept fair sorting power, which supports more study of this low cost approach.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Sicheng Chen, Man Zhang, Surui Fang, Qi Yang, Chuyi Chen, Zhixuan Lei, Yuxia Zhu, Fen Deng, Lijuan Mo, Xi Liu, Changhong Tan, Lifen Chen |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |